Careers and ABBv
This health care professional specializes in the prevention, evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries and is often the first responder on the sideline.
What is a certified athletic trainer (AT)?
This directional term means "closer to the midline of the body."
What is medial?
These tough bands connect muscle to bone.
What are tendons?
This is a stretching or tearing injury to a ligament.
What is a sprain?
This is the term for a wound where the top layers of skin are scraped away, like a "turf burn."
What is an abrasion?
These three letters stand for "range of motion," the amount of movement available at a joint.
What is ROM?
This directional term means "farther from the midline of the body."
What is lateral?
This type of contraction occurs when a muscle shortens as it produces force, such as the upward phase of a bicep curl.
What is a concentric contraction?
In the HOPS evaluation method, this "P" step uses the hands to feel for tenderness, swelling, or deformity.
What is palpation?
This safety approach treats all blood and body fluids as if they are infectious to prevent the spread of disease.
What are universal precautions?
This physician is medically responsible for the athletes on a team and often supervises the athletic trainer.
What is the team physician?
This term describes a structure that is closer to the point of attachment or the trunk of the body, such as the knee compared to the ankle.
What is proximal?
This type of contraction occurs when a muscle produces force but does not change length, such as holding a plank.
What is an isometric contraction?
This is the most common ankle sprain mechanism, occurring when the sole of the foot rolls inward and injures the outside of the ankle.
What is an inversion sprain?
This is the first and most important step to control bleeding from an open wound.
What is applying direct pressure (with a sterile dressing)?
This abbreviation stands for the written, practiced plan a school follows during a medical emergency.
What is an EAP (Emergency Action Plan)?
This term means "toward the front of the body," the opposite of posterior.
What is anterior?
This type of contraction occurs when a muscle lengthens while under tension, such as slowly lowering a weight.
What is an eccentric contraction?
This is the largest bone of the foot and forms the heel.
What is the calcaneus?
This condition, caused by inadequate blood flow and oxygen to the body's tissues, produces pale, cool, clammy skin and a rapid, weak pulse.
What is shock?
These four letters stand for the acute-injury care steps
What is RICE?
This directional term means "located below another structure," the opposite of superior.
What is inferior?
This ankle movement points the toes and foot downward, the opposite of dorsiflexion.
What is plantar flexion?
This special test checks the anterior talofibular ligament by pulling the foot forward on the lower leg.
What is the anterior drawer test?
This puncture-resistant container is where used needles and other sharps must be placed.
What is a sharps container?